the pine and the cypress endure cold winter together(suì hán sōng bǎi)

the pine and the cypress endure cold winter together

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Su ì h á ns ō NGB ǎ I, which means people who can keep their moral integrity in adversity. From the Analects of Confucius · Zihan.

The origin of Idioms

In Confucius' Analects of Confucius in the pre Qin period, Zi Han said, "when the year is cold, then the pines and cypresses wither."

Idiom usage

To be an object; to be a person of virtue. example later, wealth has been scattered, and the old pines and cypresses still remain. Liu Yuxi, Tang Dynasty, will go to Ruzhou on the way out of Junxia and leave for Li Xianggong

Chinese PinYin : suì hán sōng bǎi